Has the 70-week prophecy of Daniel been fulfilled? Why do people continue to try to expand the prophecy into our day and time?
Let’s familiarize ourselves with the passage of Scripture by reading the following:
Daniel 9:24-27… “There are Seventy Weeks (490 years) that have been determined upon your people and upon your holy city, in order to terminate the transgression, and to finish off sin, and to make atonement for error, and to bring in righteousness for times indefinite, and to imprint a seal upon vision and prophet, and to anoint the Holy of Holies. And you should know and have the insight [that] from the going forth of [the] word to restore and to rebuild Jerusalem until Messiah [the] Leader, there will be Seven Weeks (49 years with the Jubilee), also Sixty-two Weeks. She will return and be actually rebuilt, with a public square and moat, but in the straits of the times. “And after the Sixty-two Weeks Messiah will be cut off, with nothing for himself. “And the city and the holy place the people of a leader that is coming (under Romen authority) will bring to their ruin (70 CE). And the end of it will be by the flood. And until [the] end there will be war; what is decided upon is desolations. “And he must keep [the] covenant in force for the many for one week; and at the half of the week, he will cause sacrifice and gift offering to cease. “And upon the wing of disgusting things there will be the one causing desolation; and until an extermination, the very thing decided upon will go pouring out also upon the one lying desolate.”
Has this prophecy of the 70-Weeks been fulfilled? Well, that is not a simple question to answer, first there is a lot of detail in this prophecy, we will need to break it all down. We need to relook at some of the Hebrew words and their translation.
What we do have going for us is history, we can look back in time and see that the 70-Weeks have been fulfilled. Well, if this is true then why are we even looking at this prophecy today?
Well, there are some important details that has been missed and it affects you and I even to this very day. Even the Jewish people who celebrate the sabbatical years have overlooked a very important detail that now must be revealed. It all has to do with the Jubilee year. And if you know what the Jubilee year is all about then great, but do you celebrate it?
It is Just History
Artaxerxes gave the word to restore Jerusalem and the Temple in the fall of 458 BCE that is a fact. If we use the knowledge of the sabbatical Sabbath year and take the 70 weeks and times that by seven, we will get 490 years. 70 x 7 = 490 years that is simple right?
So, now take 458 BCE the year Artaxerxes gave the word to restore and subtract 490 years as the 70 weeks = 32 CE + 1 year for the 0 year, because of the 12 months you get 33 CE when the Messiah was to be cut off. These are just the facts that have proven, prophecy has become history.
Moving forward we now know that in 33 CE our Lord Jesus Christ Yeshua was killed, that is just history, but now we have a good number of 458 BCE as being a pivotal year along with 33 CE. One of the most important things we also need to keep in mind when understanding these things is this. These events happen under the Jewish timeline not the Gregorian calendar. The Jewish people count the beginning of their secular civil year from Tishri 1, knowing this should help us out when we are doing our math, it is something we will have to reflect back on to.
Now that we have these two pivotal dates identified we now know that 29 CE is also a suitable number for the beginning of the ministry of Christ Jesus, Yeshua.
Now using the same math formula, take 62 weeks x 7 years = 434 years.
7 weeks x 7 years = 49 years. And the 1 week would be 7 years. If we were to add up the 62 weeks, the 49 weeks and the 1 week it would equal 490 years.
So, why did the angel break up the 70 weeks in to the 1 week, 7 weeks and 62 weeks?
It was to confirm the reestablishing of the 7-day Sabbath cycle and the 49 years to the Jubilee cycle as it was given to Moses. Read the following God given Law:
Leviticus 25:8-10… And you must count for yourself seven sabbaths of years, seven times seven years, and the days of the seven sabbaths of years must amount to forty-nine years for you. And you must cause the horn of loud tone to sound in the seventh month on the tenth of the month; on the day of atonement, YOU people should cause the horn to sound in all YOUR land. And YOU must sanctify the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty in the land to all its inhabitants. It will become a Jubilee for YOU, and YOU must return each one to his possession and YOU should return each one to his family.
I could not help but notice after reading this passage of Scripture that on the seventh month that is Tishri and on the 10th day of the month that would begin the Jubilee year and that it falls on the day of Atonement.
That means that the angel Gabriel came and gave the information to Daniel for the reinstitution of the sabbatical years and the practice of the Jubilee cycle. That means that we should be observing the Sabbath and its seven-year sabbatical cycle, also we should be sanctifying the 50th year and declaring liberty to the lands. Wow there is to be a Jubilee and a releasing of debt and land so it should be returned the family by its inheritance.
Are the sabbatical years being practiced today along with this Jubilee?
That is a really good question, but it is not a simple answer because the sabbatical years are being observed, but the Jubilee cycle is not. And worse than that no one truly knows this 7-week cycle to be able to practice it, it has been lost in time. So, now is the time to reveal the proper 7-week cycle with its Jubilee celebration. After all we have a starting point given by the angel when the word went forth to restore Jerusalem and the Temple by Artaxerxes in 458 BC as a Jubilee.
When was the last time the Jewish people practice the sabbatical year and the Jubilee? Has God reset his Jubilee cycle since the word went forth to restore Jerusalem and the Temple?
The Timetable
5782 was the last sabbatical year or Shmita, it began on September 7, 2021, and ended in 2022. So, the Jewish source material says that the Jubilee year is not currently being observed or commemorated by the Jewish people much less any other nation of the world. Is this a problem for people not to observe the Jubilee?
According to the historical record the last Jubilee was celebrated in 121 BCE 120 BCE on the Gregorian calendar, but the Jewish calendar it would have rendered the date as 3639.
Is the current celebration of the sabbatical year or Shmita line up with what the angel Gabriel gave to Daniel?
To find this answer we would take a look at the mathematical charting of years and days. We need to start with the current Jewish year and work our way backwards to the year 458 BCE. Next we would apply the words given to Daniel from the angel and count forward marking every 7 years to we reach the 49 years. Now that we have marked off the sabbatical years as we progressed forward in time and at the 50-year mark we would indicate a Jubilee time. Look at the timeline graft or chart so that you may visualize the time and seasons.
Please look at the timeline graft or chart so that you may visualize the time and seasons.
Also go to the sub heading How to Use these Timelines to understand how to use the spreadsheet.
Now one of the first things that you are going to notice is that the celebration given by the angel is not lining up with the current known celebratory time. And you can see how this could become a problem; how could this have happened you may be asking? How is it that what was given by the angel, is something that’s not being practiced today according to God’s word? Leviticus 25:23
More about this timeline will be reviewed under the subheading The Timeline and the Unfinished Work
In the Straits of Times
The angel of God identified a time that was called the Straits of Times, what does that mean? Strong’s Concordance H6695 is translated as distress or anguish as it refers to a period of time. So, God’s angel identified that there was going to be a time of anguish and distress. And history has proven those words true. Jerusalem and the Temple were rebuilt and eventually an extermination did befall God’s people.
The Jewish people begin to accept the Hellenistic customs of the Greeks and the Romans. And the king of the North did inflict damage and harm upon the nation of Israel. The Maccabees stood up and were able to take back control of Israel and restore the temple and worship. But before long Herod came along and killed off the priest and rebuilt the temple and dedicated it to Rome. All this happened before the Messiah came. So, it should be no surprise to us that the count of the sabbatical years along with the Jubilee do not line up with what’s being practiced today. The spirit of the antichrist does not want this information to be brought forward. It wants all of mankind to be at odds with God’s word and out of step with his festivals seasons, it tries to hide the time that were living in today. The practice of the Jubilee releasing of land, people, and money owed and giving back to the proper inheritance is something that the antichrist spirit does not want to happen, because it does not want to release control over God’s people.
You are probably looking at the timeline chart and wondering why the Jubilee cycle did not fall or line up with the coming of the Messiah around 29 -32 CE?
For us to answer that question we need to go back and review what the angel said at Daniel 9:24.
Did the coming Messiah fulfill all that the angel of God called out that would be accomplished in Daniel 9:24?
To Bring in Righteousness
What did the fulfillment of the prophecy look like?
Daniel 9:24… “There are seventy weeks that have been determined upon your people and upon your holy city, in order to terminate the transgression, and to finish off sin, and to make atonement for error, and to bring in righteousness for times indefinite, and to imprint a seal upon vision and prophet, and to anoint the Holy of Holies.
- terminate the transgression, and to finish off sin, – This was fulfilled for those who accept the blood of Christ, those who will wash in the blood of the Lamb. Revelation 7:14
- and to make atonement for error, – Still a future fulfillment that is coming.
- and to bring in righteousness for times indefinite, – Being fulfilled or under fulfillment. Daniel 12:3
- and to imprint a seal upon vision and prophet, – Fulfilled, all who prophesied about these events have been sealed as the prophets and the visions yet coming.
- and to anoint the Holy of Holies. – Fulfilled on Pentecost of the Jewish year 3793, as the Holy Spirit was poured out upon the disciples.
The Jubilee
When did the Jubilee start and end? What were some of the particular things that were released in the Jubilee year?
The Jubilee year began on the Day of Atonement Tishri 10th and run’s all the way through to Tishri 1st of the following year. The Jubilee was to provide a relief for the people of Israel preventing them to sink into a perpetual state of poverty.
Leviticus chapter 25 holds the law about the Jubilee, and I recommend reading the whole chapter but below are some excerpts from chapter 25.
Leviticus 25:8-55… Consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you; each of you is to return to your family property and to your own clan… 13In this Year of Jubilee everyone is to return to their own property… 41 Then they and their children are to be released, and they will go back to their own clans and to the property of their ancestors. 42 Because the Israelites are my servants, whom I brought out of Egypt, they must not be sold as slaves. 43 Do not rule over them ruthlessly but fear your God.
The Jubilee was to be a restoration to the people of Israel. The principles of the Jubilee were founded in the right of repurchase. This provision provided by God was a requirement upon the land and the people, it allow a financial reversal if you found yourself in poverty.
What were the consequences of not observing the Jubilee?
Leviticus 26:27-40… If, however, with this YOU will not listen to me and YOU just must walk in opposition to me, 28 I shall then have to walk in heated opposition to YOU, and I, yes, I, shall have to chastise YOU seven times for YOUR sins. 29 So YOU will have to eat the flesh of YOUR sons, and YOU will eat the flesh of YOUR daughters. 30 And I shall certainly annihilate YOUR sacred high places and cut off YOUR incense stands and lay YOUR own carcasses upon the carcasses of YOUR dungy idols; and my soul will simply abhor YOU. 31 And I shall indeed give YOUR cities to the sword and lay YOUR sanctuaries desolate, and I shall not smell YOUR restful odors. 32 And I, for my part, will lay the land desolate, and YOUR enemies who are dwelling in it will simply stare in amazement over it. 33 And YOU I shall scatter among the nations, and I will unsheathe a sword after YOU; and YOUR land must become a desolation, and YOUR cities will become a desolate ruin. 34 At that time the land will pay off its sabbaths all the days of its lying desolated, while YOU are in the land of YOUR enemies. At that time the land will keep sabbath, as it must repay its sabbaths. 35 All the days of its lying desolated it will keep sabbath, for the reason that it did not keep sabbath during YOUR sabbaths when YOU were dwelling upon it. 36 As for those remaining among YOU, I shall certainly bring timidity into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a leaf driven about will indeed chase them away, and they will actually flee as in flight from a sword and fall without anyone chasing. 37 And they will certainly stumble against one another as if from before a sword without anyone chasing, and for YOU there will prove to be no ability to stand [in resistance] before YOUR enemies. 38 And YOU must perish among the nations, and the land of YOUR enemies must eat YOU up. 39 As for those remaining among YOU, they will rot away because of their error in the lands of YOUR enemies. Yes, even because of the errors of their fathers, with them they will rot away. 40 And they will certainly confess their own error and the error of their fathers in their unfaithfulness when they behaved unfaithfully toward me, yes, even when they walked in opposition to me.
History has proved out these words that God spoke to the nation of Israel. What was God’s purpose for bringing the nation into the land of their enemy? And will there be a restoration and returning to celebrating the Jubilee the God’s law?
Leviticus 26:41-45… Yet I, for my part, proceeded to walk in opposition to them, and I had to bring them into the land of their enemies. Perhaps at that time their uncircumcised heart will be humbled, and at that time they will pay off their error. 42 And I shall indeed remember my covenant with Jacob; and even my covenant with Isaac and even my covenant with Abraham I shall remember, and the land I shall remember. 43 All the while the land was left abandoned by them and was paying off its sabbaths while it was lying desolated without them and they themselves were paying for their error, because, even because, they had rejected my judicial decisions, and their souls had abhorred my statutes. 44 And yet for all this, while they continue in the land of their enemies, I shall certainly not reject them nor abhor them so as to exterminate them, to violate my covenant with them; for I am Jehovah their God. 45 And I will remember in their behalf the covenant of the ancestors whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt under the eyes of the nations, in order to prove myself their God. I am Yah!
God’s intention for the people of Israel was to turn them back to doing and observing his Law by humbling them. He will prove to be their God as he saves them! So, when will God reinstitute his festivals, after all Israel has been restored to the promised land in 1948.
Can you see how this prophecy and timeline has become a problem for Israel and its people. The people of Israel argue over whose land it belongs. Both the Jews and the Arabs along with the nations fight and argue over this land. When God’s word clearly indicates the land belongs to him. Those who live on this land will follow his Laws or there will be consequences. Leviticus 25:23
Follow he hyperlink: Timeline of 70-Weeks
Come Lord Jesus!
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